amazed - Story 3703 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The blood drained from David’s face. He felt a peculiar lightness in his chest. “Camp Firefly? But…that’s…impossible.”

Across the table in the break room, Emily took a sip of her tea, unfazed. “What’s impossible about it? Best summers of my life.”

David just stared at her, unblinking. His mouth formed a silent 'oh.' The world seemed to shrink around him. "We… we were there the same year. And you… You were on the archery team, right?"

Emily's eyebrows shot up. "Yeah! How did you know?" David just kept staring, his mind racing.

Emotion: amazed

Cluster: Surprise / Confusion

PC1 (Valence): 0.74 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -0.51

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion amazed. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 amazed stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the amazed emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the amazed vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`🤩`	0.301
`de`	0.289
`L`	0.284
`😳`	0.251
`அதிசய`	0.236

Suppressed:

`ing`	-0.332
`l`	-0.253
`😞`	-0.240
`unsuccessful`	-0.237
`unsuccessfully`	-0.233